Introduction

My mother' s last breath was a promise from a man whose name was a myth: Mr. Sterling, my father.

He was supposed to take me in, but instead, I found myself an intruder in a mansion of glass and cold stone, an unwelcome "charity case" to the perfect, privileged twins, Olivia and Liam.

They treated me with disdain, their silent hostility a constant pressure, and at school, the whispers started.

"Chloe Sterling, the illegitimate daughter."

When Tiffany and her cronies began to torment me, physically and emotionally, I was utterly alone, abandoned by the very family I' d been sacrificed to.

Hope shattered, I thought I was nothing but collateral damage, a problem to disappear.

But in my deepest despair, they appeared – Olivia and Liam – no longer my tormentors but furious protectors, wielding a startling truth: my father wasn' t just cold, he was a monster who had crushed their dreams and stolen their inheritance.

Stripped bare, broken, they looked at me, an outsider with nothing left to lose, and whispered, "You have to be our weapon."

And in that moment, the ghost of a girl faded, replaced by a fierce resolve: I would dismantle his empire from within, not just for myself, but for the family he had tried to destroy.